Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained in Site-23 within an open display case, inside an unlocked and unguarded room, the walls of which should be composed of standard plaster and drywall. Should SCP-XXXX's anomalous effects initiate, these walls are to be destroyed via plastic explosives.

SCP-XXXX is accessible by any personnel, regardless of clearance level. Personnel approaching SCP-XXXX with the intent to read it are to be discouraged, though no great effort to prevent a reading is to be made on or by any individual, regardless of clearance.

SCP-XXXX is to be monitored by on-site security personnel. Any requests for adjustments to SCP-XXXX’s containment or object class are to be reported to containment specialists as soon as possible, who are to administer Class-B amnestics to all affected personnel, using force if necessary.

Description: SCP-XXXX is, at the current time of writing, a 15cm x 22cm x 2cm book bound in bovine leather. There is no visible author’s name anywhere on the cover, spine, or back of the book See addenda. Isotope analysis of cover and page material indicate two separate possible locations, namely Côte d'Azur, France, and Djene, Mali. All attempts to seek out an original author have failed, though efforts are currently ongoing.

SCP-XXXX’s anomalous effects render the above information subject to change. The object has appeared as a cardboard 22-page children’s book, an unbound leaflet of eight pages, and various religious texts. While the text of the title is subject to change, all subjects report it to be written in French.

The primary anomalous effect of SCP-XXXX has been referred to by researchers as “rebellious adaptation.” This effect manifests in proportion to the intensity of containment measures. More secure containment procedures results in SCP-XXXX's cover more closely resembling living tissue.

A controlled experiment by Dr. Short, with approval from the site director, endeavored to observe SCP-XXXX for visible changes during containment shifts. Over the course of the experiment, SCP-XXXX changed from its initial appearance, a children’s book printed on thin cardboard, to its current appearance. Increased containment resulted in the binding material of SCP-XXXX to change from bovine leather to leather made through tanning of human skin, then transitioning into untanned human flesh. The experiment was terminated prematurely when SCP-XXXX manifested weapon-like appendages, resulting in the deaths of nine personnel.

The secondary anomalous effect of SCP-XXXX is referred to by researchers as "postmortem entrapment". This effect triggers when SCP-XXXX kills an individual. Following such an event, messages from the deceased individual(s), hereby designated collectively as SCP-XXXX-1, appear as text on the pages of SCP-XXXX. These messages indicate continued sentience and awareness of the entities' situation. Examples of this text can be found in addenda XXXX.2 and XXXX.3.

SCP-XXXX was discovered on a cargo ship off the coast of southern France on 03/07/2013. All individuals on the ship were deceased upon discovery. Autopsy confirmed cause of death as a combination of heavy laceration and cerebral hemorrhage due to penetration by a foreign object. Law enforcement in Côte d'Azur placed SCP-XXXX in evidence storage due to the large amount of blood concentrated near and on it, yet video files recovered from the scene indicate a forensic tech read the item, leading to its placement in a high-security cell and triggering another outbreak. After questioning, survivors were given Class-B amnestics and implanted with false memories explaining injury through non-anomalous means. The Foundation has acquired the affected police station, which is closed under the guise of renovation pending further investigation.

The Foundation launched an investigation into ███████ Inc., the owner of the cargo ship which SCP-XXXX was found aboard. The transcript, results, and interpretation of the investigation can be found below.

Lead Investigator/Reporter: Cherie D'Ourielle, PhD (History and Mythology)Subject: Origins of SCP-XXXXBEGIN LOG
The investigation began with the owner company, ███████. The shipping logs provided by upper management revealed an order from Cairo, Egypt. From there, we found a maze of a paper trail. It seems as though everyone in the Middle East with functional transportation carried it at some point. There seemed to be an attempt to throw off an investigation - at many points, there were redundancies and false leads, red herrings around every corner. In the space of a month, SCP-XXXX flew from Kabul to Cairo, traveled over land from Cairo to Islamabad, traveled on a camel from there to the Indian border, and was put on a truck to Delhi, at which point it was flown back to Kabul. That was the theme of the entire investigation - country-hopping across the entirety of Africa and Southwest Asia.
Whoever sponsored this has an immensity of assets at their disposal. We tried following the money, but the payments that weren't made in cash are all attributed to accounts across the globe. Tracking the account holders led to a series of dead ends and false targets.
The trail petered out in South Africa. A now-defunct shipping company received and processed SCP-XXXX. The company didn't have any computers and kept minimal records. What was there was difficult to interpret and didn't have adequate information. The only thing we learned there was that a cargo ship had transported it from somewhere in the Middle East.
Due to the anomalous nature of the object, we suspected GOI involvement. Contacts within GOIs across Africa and the Middle East had the occasional scrap of information alluding to western Mali, but nothing we could use. All other anomalous activity from the region was examined and cross-referenced, but no connections could be established. The last thing we found was given to us by personnel at Site-██ in Mali. According to him, a D-Class had reported a "disturbing" dream in which a book had "taught him how to escape the prison". The D-Class then said he "didn't really want to learn at all" and proceeded to thank on-site personnel for keeping him "in a better cell". Further investigation into the incident was deemed unnecessary and resource-consuming.
After exploring every possible lead, we were left with essentially nothing. We can speculate that the object comes from Africa or the Middle East, but even that's not solid. We can't do much now other than try to contain it.
Requesting access to SCP-XXXX-1 instances relevant to object history. Maybe the thing itself has some clues.

Selected SCP-XXXX-1 instances:

[Translated from French] This is an urgent communication from ███████ vessel S-2043. We have encountered a hostile entity approximately two kilomitres east of Côte d'Azur in the form of our cargo. Upon transfer from open storage to a cargo unit, our cargo, a book titled "Memoirs from the Abyss", turned…hostile. I don't know, the damn thing took us to fucking pieces! It gutted half the crew before we had time to react. I don't know where I am now. The last thing I remember was huddling behind a support post, hoping it wouldn't find me. If anyone is out there: We need assistance. The package was picked up in Cairo. Send military - you'll need it!

[Translated from Farsi] I feel so far from home…so cold. The wastes here are all the worse, as I have been blinded to them. The world outside is a shadow lingering in the back of my mind, like the remaining heat left in my skin after the campfire dies. I need to remind myself of its characteristics, or I will slip into the endless white. It is the year 1987. My name is Dalhir Farshid. My package is old, older than the land I call home. That is all I was told of it. I cannot forget my home…

Note from Investigator D'Ourielle: The earliest provable transportation records we had came from 2005. It looks like our package has been in transit far longer than we suspected.

Addendum XXXX.1

INCIDENT REPORT XXXX-1 Classification Level 4
12:33 GMT: INITIAL RECORDED REBELLIOUS ADAPTATION
On 07/12/2014, an experiment on the transition rate and observable phenomena had to be terminated due to containment breach during a “Rebellious Adaptation” (heretofore referred to as a “R-A Event”). Upon SCP-XXXX being moved from a steel-lined containment chamber to a suspended chamber with magnetically-sealed doors, the object underwent an R-A Event. Enclosed is a video file of the event.

The corner-mounted camera auto-focuses on the group of researchers standing around a table displaying SCP-XXXX. The object’s binding appears to be untanned human flesh. The camera captures slight movement, as though the flesh is alive.

R-03: Object appears to be…moving.

Dr. Short: Acknowledged. R-04, switch camera to infrared.

An audible click comes from the camera, followed by an electronic hum. The feed displays the setting in infrared, revealing seven heat signatures.

R-04: Infrared confirms heat sig from SCP-XXXX.

Dr. Short: What’s the temperature?

R-04: Standard for human body temperature.

Dr. Short: Acknowledged. Make a note and switch back to VL spectrum.

The camera feed switches back to visible light.

Dr. Short: Initiate recontainment.

R-01, wearing standard hazmat gloves, picks up SCP-XXXX

R-01: I can feel it moving. It seems to be fusing with the gloves.

Dr. Short: Noted. Commence procedure.

R-01, closely followed by the research and security teams, carefully moves the object towards a suspended, shock-absorbing cell measuring 1m x 1m x 1m. The camera follows as the object is placed within the steel holding cell.

Dr. Short: R-01, describe the object.

R-01: It’s…growing prehensile appendages.

The five security guards glance at each other, checking their standard-issue small arms.

Dr. Short: R-04, switch to IR.

The camera feed switches to infrared, revealing a shifting mass of tendril-like appendages climbing from the cell.

R-04: It’s getting hotter in there. Definitely appears to be growing. I think we should call this off, boss - it's getting serious in there.

Dr. Short: Negative. We have to see what this thing is capable of. R-01, what are you seeing?

R-01:Notably panicked It’s grabbing on to me!

Dr. Short: R-01, retreat from the—

A flesh-like tendril shoots up from containment, piercing through R-01’s skull.

Security staff unload small arms fire into SCP-XXXX. The camera switches back to visible light, auto-zooming on the entity. An indeterminable number of tendrils emerge from the containment cell, growing larger and more numerous with each bullet.

Dr. Short: Hold your fire, hold your fire!

Security continues firing at SCP-XXXX, ignoring Dr. Short's order.

S-02: Small arms ineffective!

A tendril lashes out, decapitating R-03 and slashing R-02 across the abdomen.

S-01: Short, researchers, get out!

R-05 rushes for the door, taking three steps before a tendril stabs her through the chest and pulls her towards the containment cell.

A tendril lashes upward, above the camera’s feed. A panicked shout and shattering glass come from above the camera, followed by R-04’s body being pulled into the room, a tendril penetrating his skull.

Dr. Short: Cover me!

Security focuses their small-arms fire on the central nexus, drawing SCP-XXXX’s attention. Short flees the room, followed by S-01 and S-04. As the remaining two security guards attempt to leave the lab, three tendrils shoot across the the room, killing them. The camera powers down as the door to the chamber closes.

END LOG

Following Incident A-XXXX-1, SCP-XXXX destroyed its own containment cell. This decrease in containment resulted in the object reverting back to a safer condition, at which time security personnel were able to move SCP-XXXX back to its original containment cell.

Surviving security, after being cleared of any ill effects, were disciplined for disobeying Dr. Short's orders and worsening a containment breach.

Statement from Dr. Short:To hell with objectivity. This experiment killed nine Foundation personnel - dedicated employees and, in the case of the researchers, good friends.

I know we can’t contain this thing - what I saw was evidence enough. That being said, this can’t stand. It’s out in the open, for anyone to approach and read at will. We can’t even put a goddamn warning sign over the thing without pushing it into a killing spree.

I’ve been reading about research into SCP-XXXX for any way to contain this thing. After reading Dr. Nguyen’s experiment log, I got in contact with him. We’ve sent a proposal to the Site Director and the O5 Council for additional study into containment. We need to get this thing under control.

Short put me here, didn't she? Is this your twisted, fucked-up 'research', Doctor? Or are we here for your entertainment, a chorus of your victims singing their own eulogies? You're fucked, Jennifer. I know you can't resist coming back, and as soon as you do, I'll exert whatever control I can to pull you in here with us, for eternity.

Where is this? Oh god, is this hell? Trapped inside this damn book, waiting for…just waiting. Jennifer would know. Where is she? She's in here, right? We were all there, we all died. We must have. Security couldn't keep the thing down with heavy weaponry. What chance did us researchers stand? I can still feel it…the…thing piercing my chest. It felt…warm. I hope Jennifer gets here soon. I need her here.

86% match with Yvonne Garner, designated R-05.

This is new. Lots of space in here - feels empty. I have to say, I'm excited. This is what I signed on for, isn't it - exploring the unknown. Seeing new sights, although I don't know that I'd describe this as sight. Either way, plenty of observations to make. I'm sure Dr. Short would agree. She stood a good chance of getting out, given how preoccupied our new home was with integrating us. If you're reading this, Dr. Short, come on in. There's plenty of room.

91% match with Dr. Evan Anders, designated R-02.

I shouldn't be here. I don't need to be here. I was just doing what Dr. Short said to do. It wasn't supposed to be dangerous. She promised I'd be safe - she'd never lost a researcher! There must be some way to pull me out. She could do it - she wouldn't have put me in the line of fire if she couldn't. Dr. Short, it isn't fair, I wasn't supposed to die on my first assignment. Help me!

72% match with Junior Researcher Mark Simpson, designated R-01.

It's cold in here. I miss being warm, feeling the blood flow. Other than that…I'm happy. Isn't that amazing - I'm happy! It's been 18 long years with the Foundation, steadily losing sleep. The job does that to you, you know. Now, I'm finally away from the responsibility. I can rest. Jennifer needs it, too. I can see the stress on her. Working like she does - never losing a researcher, never letting a D-class die under her watch - I'm sure the weight she carries is many times worse than the one on my shoulders. God, to finally sleep…I'm sure she'd like it in here.

68% match with Dr. Yukadi Moko, designated R-03.

Addendum XXXX.3: Statement from the O5 Council:
We are aware there has been some confusion as to the status of Drs. Nguyen and Short. As of today, we can confirm that these Foundation personnel are considered deceased. It is known to the Council that the two employees were working together on upgraded containment for SCP-XXXX. We had approved the project hoping to establish a means to sequester the entity away from non-credentialed personnel. Our understanding was that the doctors were working on a mathematical equation to maximize containment while still maintaining stability in SCP-XXXX. With our knowledge, the doctors initiated some form of containment now deemed unsuccessful.

Security personnel reported a request to shift containment of SCP-XXXX. Understandably trepidated by past events, they sought our permission before granting the request. Knowing of the ongoing efforts to contain SCP-XXXX, we approved. This has been deemed an error.

While in calibrated containment, a recording device captured SCP-XXXX transitioning upon placement. Enclosed is the video file from the incident.

The feed opens on the interior of a steel-walled 5m x 5m x 5m containment cell. The door to the room opens and Drs. Short and Nguyen enter with SCP-XXXX.

Dr. Nguyen: Drs. Jennifer Short and Joachim Nguyen, placing SCP-XXXX in calibrated containment. Dr. Short, would you like to explain our calibrations?

Dr. Short: Of course. During previous experiments, it was noted that the dimensions of SCP-XXXX’s containment cell are inversely correlated with its level of ‘aggression’, for lack of a better word. We found that the best size to be five cubic meters. At this volume, the cell is sufficiently large while also not taking up an undue amount of space, thus compromising the site. The door to the cell is locked via a simple lock-and-key mechanism, and the guards outside as well as all researchers and the site director each have a copy of the key. This metric seems sufficient to the object, as enough people have regular access to it to ‘satisfy’ its requirements. The steel walls are just a precaution against a milder R-A event.

Dr. Nguyen: Thank you. We are now moving SCP-XXXX into its new, hopefully permanent, containment.

The doctors place SCP-XXXX on a central display table equidistant from each wall of the room. The object’s cover material changes from tanned bovine leather to partially-tanned human flesh. The camera feed auto-switches to infrared, showing a slight heat signature consistent with recently-deceased human skin.

Dr. Short: Containment appears adequate.

Dr. Nguyen: I concur.

The two doctors move to exit the containment cell. Before they can leave, however, the wording of SCP-XXXX’s title begins to glow a dull red. The doctors stop in their tracks, apparently in some form of trance. Dr. Nguyen turns slowly and walks, trance-like, to SCP-XXXX, followed closely by Dr. Short. Upon reaching the object, Dr. Short opens it to a blank page while Dr. Nguyen watches on in a daze. A tendril emerges from SCP-XXXX and slowly approaches Dr. Nguyen. The tendril pierces his throat, covering itself in his blood, then returns to SCP-XXXX. Dr. Short takes it in her hand and, using it as a pen, writes on SCP-XXXX’s blank page. The camera auto-zooms on the writing, revealing it to be the equation devised by Short and Nguyen for optimal calibration. When finished, the trance ceases.

Dr. Short:Looking to Dr. Nguyen and then to SCP-XXXX Security! We need assistance!

A mass of tendrils emerges from SCP-XXXX. Dr. Short flees the room as security moves in, with fire ordinance at the ready. A burst of flame envelops the camera, cutting off the feed.

The following text was observed and catalogued following the incident:

Don't blame yourself, Jennifer. I knew what I was getting into. You don't volunteer for Keter containment if you don't have a certain acceptance of death. Still, I can't help but feel you should have seen this coming.
I've read your personnel file. You can't let death happen under your watch. I should have know when you proposed this idea to me that you were obsessed. Something had finally broken you, and you were going to break it back if it killed you. You can't get personally involved in this job. It's the best way to ensure your career ends in blood.
The psych department won't hold a grudge. They know it's not your fault, and they've lost people before. Normally to suicide, but they're used to it either way. Let them help you, Jennifer.
I hope you don't read this. I hope you put XXXX behind you and move on to the next job. I know you won't, but I still hope. Maybe you'll join us one day. It would make the place feel less empty.

Following the incident, SCP-XXXX has displayed increased sensitivity to containment, with even the slightest attempt to restrict access bringing on an R-A Event, necessitating an increase in the size of the object's containment cell. For this reason, in addition to the poor results of past research, experimentation entailing a change in containment of SCP-XXXX now requires both the approval of the Site Director and a unanimous vote of affirmation from the O5 council.

After security personnel managed to destroy enough of SCP-XXXX’s containment cell to reduce the severity of the R-A Event, they moved in to secure the object. The team leader reported a change to SCP-XXXX, since verified by all other personnel, seemingly bypassing its first anomalous effect: SCP-XXXX now bears an inscription stating it was co-authored by Drs. Joachim Nguyen and Jennifer Short.

On 13/02/2014, Dr. Jennifer Short entered SCP-XXXX's containment unit. Forensic reports suggest she used her own body to "contain" the entity. The autopsy report credits her cause of death as massive internal hemorrhage, though not enough remained of her body to make a definitive statement. Following the incident, the following text appeared in SCP-XXXX.

Here it is. I'm ready. Weeks of treatment in the psych department.

They still have pictures of Joachim. They try to take them down before I come in, but I can see them anyway.

This isn't intended to reflect negatively on my therapist. She had about as much chance to save me as I had to save Joachim.
This isn't just about him, though. It's about the full research team lost to my hubris, the entire squadron of security personnel swallowed up by an experiment I started but didn't have the wherewithal to cut off before the inevitable happened. It's about the police in Côte d'Azur, the crew aboard ███████ Inc.'s ship, the unknowable numbers of lives lost in Africa. Those people died because I wasn't there to contain it. Because I didn't do my job.
I joined the Foundation years ago with the intention to help humanity against threats beyond its comprehension. In my years here, I've worked for nothing less than the safety of the human race. I intended to save as many people as I could. Throughout my career, each of my containment projects were successfully completed without a single death, D-Class or full personnel. I hadn't come into contact with anything that defied the very letter of the job.
When XXXX came along, it shook apart the delicate facade I'd built for myself. The illusion that the work I was doing was exemplary, the thought that I was living the life I was born for. The very thought that I was a person worth her weight on the world. I needed order, I needed understanding. I carried out the experiment.
After the first deaths in my career, I told myself I could make it up. All I had to do was finish what I'd started. I just needed to keep it from happening again. Then, I killed Joachim.
I did kill him. Him and the others. This damn book knows it, too - that's why it took my name. It's congratulating me on killing so many, engraving my name on my weapon of choice.
It's a fitting engraving. They're fitting last words.
Authored by Dr. Jennifer Short. I can't kill anymore.

Special Containment Procedures: Project Temere-M14 is to be continued by graduates of the Foundation's XXXX-A course, overseen by Dr. Nordqvist. Work on Project Temere-M14 is to take place at Area-██, a protected facility designed for containment of SCP-XXXX and commencement of the project. No anomalies outside of SCP-XXXX are to be contained in Area-██, and data from Project Temere-M14 is not to be applied to ongoing research into any outside anomalies. Project reports are to be transmitted to the O5 Council monthly or following a significant development1. Enrollment in the XXXX-A course requires level 4 clearance.

Due to the effects of exposure to Project Temere-M14 and SCP-XXXX, personnel are to be rotated out of the project after six weeks. Dr. Nordqvist, however, is not to leave the area premises under any circumstances.

In the event of a containment breach, all personnel at Area-██ excepting Dr. Nordqvist are to be considered disposable. Survivors of a breach are to be interviewed for signs of overexposure to SCP-XXXX and terminated should symptoms arise.

Upon transitioning out of Project Temere-M14, personnel are to go through Procedure 867-Ordo. Details of the procedure can be found in Addendum XXXX.2.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an entity discovered and contacted as an unintentional result of Project Temere-M14. Visual contact with SCP-XXXX has not occurred and is speculated by researchers to be impossible under the current model of physics.

While communication with SCP-XXXX is possible, advanced deciphering technology has only been sufficient to translate with 67.8% accuracy. While certainty is difficult, the entity's responses appear to indicate full understanding of human communication.

Communication with SCP-XXXX requires advanced knowledge and understanding of cryptology, computer programming, linguistics, and quantum physics. The XXXX-A Course was formed as a result of this, founded by Dr. Nordqvist. The course, designed for personnel with a PhD in quantum physics and/or cryptology, largely concerns supplementary knowledge on particle superposition, patterns of emphasis in speech, language development, and translation. The knowledge and resources involved in the course are unavailable outside of the Foundation; most of said knowledge originates from study of SCP-XXXX and Project Temere-M14.

Project Temere-M14 concerns the development of a spin-based random number generator. The project, started by researchers Ross Franklin and Stephanie Gould, was intended to provide the means to contain and counter a mathematical equation, also designed by Franklin and Gould, with memetic properties. Countering said equation necessitates truly random number generation, the intended product of Project Temere-M14. Following the emergence of SCP-XXXX, Project Temere-M14's main purpose shifted to translation and deciphering of the entity's communications. A log of communications related to the project can be found in Addendum XXXX.1.

The primary effect of SCP-XXXX is the superposition of information. Data obtained from the Temere Number Generator, when applied to outside information, cuses said information to exist in a state of each possible option simultaneously. Applying data to a yes/no answer causes the answer to resemble the following:

It is of note that while "Yes and No" and "No and Yes" logically seem to be identical, SCP-XXXX perceives them as two separate answers. The reason for this is unknown.

This superposition of information applies to the physical definition of the term, as well. Applying information from the Temere Number Generator to a form of carbon, for instance, a diamond, results in said object's atomic structure to adopt a superposition of every possible form of carbon. Viewers report making out a distinct shape after superposition to be near impossible, and that the object merely appears as "static where something should be". While superposition of textual data occurs immediately, physical objects take an extended period constant exposure to SCP-XXXX or data from Project Temere-M14. Research has determined this amount of time to be 7.6 hours per kilogram of material.

This effect is applicable to the human body. Over a period of weeks, exposure to data from Project Temere-M14 results in superposition of the human atomic arrangement, the end result being effectively comparable to a subatomic particle on human scale. At this stage, communication with the resulting entity requires translation through the use of the Temere Number Generator.

While the intended result of Project Temere M14 was the generation of truly random numbers, the actual results formed a pattern. While most involved considered the project a failure, Dr. Nordqvist noticed the pattern and, with the help of other research personnel, devised a program capable of partially translating the pattern into comparably understandable information. The pattern reads as follows:

Upon discovering the communication, Dr. Nordqvist began to rapidly enter a state of superposition. The rapid transition of his atomic arrangement led to spontaneous energy release, resulting in the deaths of all other personnel in the area.
[[/collapsible]]

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained in a modified Human Containment Unit at Site 88. Its cell is to be padded to ensure the entity's safety. Security personnel assigned to SCP-XXXX are to be armed with exclusively non-lethal weapons. In the event of a containment breach, the safety of SCP-XXXX is to be a top priority.

All of SCP-XXXX's medical concerns are to be considered top priority. In a triage situation, SCP-XXXX is to be the first to receive treatment, followed by staff in decreasing order of clearance.

According to Procedure 15L-Aemulatio, once a month, a D-Class personnel recruited through the Foundation Maximum-Security Prison Survey is to be armed with a standard X26P TASER and a small personal defence club and placed into SCP-XXXX's chambers. Melee combat is to commence between the D-Class and SCP-XXXX, lasting until one combatant is rendered unconscious, losing the battle. Should the D-Class win, they are to be immediately released into the general population with no surveillance or tracking efforts.

Should SCP-XXXX win, MTF Iota-10 "Damn Feds" is to process battlefield data for reports deemed potentially related to SCP-XXXX. Should such a report emerge, MTF Nu-7 "Hammer Down" is to be deployed to the battlefield to subdue and recover SCP-XXXX.

Description: SCP-XXXX is, as of this writing, a Caucasian male. It is 176 centimetres tall, has a mass of 68 kilograms, and is of the blood type A+. Isotope analysis of tooth enamel indicates it originates from the American Midwest, likely Missouri. There are no extant records of its birth or early life, but age approximation techniques estimate it to be 37 years of age.

SCP-XXXX's anomalous effects initiate upon the death of its host body. Upon expiration, the consciousness of SCP-XXXX manifests a new physical form in an environment facilitating relocation to a battlefield. Previous reincarnation locations center near recruitment centers, active terrorist cells, and war fronts. XXXX incarnations average 26 years of age upon emergence. Approximately 74% of documented instances are male, though records are incomplete due to the historically-recurring nature of the phenomenon.

Upon reaching a battlefield, SCP-XXXX chooses specific targets to pursue. A list of such targets can be found in Addendum XXXX.1. When questioned about its patterns, SCP-XXXX claims it is "hunting for honour".

After four months of confinement, routine medical examination noted a definite decline in SCP-XXXX's physical health. Despite medical treatment, the entity's symptoms did not improve. It was only after a failed D-Class riot that partial recovery of SCP-XXXX's health issues seemed to resolve. When questioned, the entity indicated its recovery as a result of a conflict between SCP-XXXX and D-39893, a former Death Row inmate convicted of 14 counts of first-degree murder2

SCP-XXXX's anomalous nature was discovered by Henry MacArthur, a field agent in MTF Iota-10, during a routine search of recent combat activity in the middle east. MacArthur noticed a trend of similar American and Iranian casualties moving in a singular, definite direction from Tehran, Iran in the direction of Site-██. On suspicion of a possible anomalous threat moving in on a Foundation site, MacArthur deployed a unit to the location to investigate. Upon arrival, the unit noted Private First Class Jeremiah Fitzgerald, whose movements were inconsistent with orders from local command. Initially held in confinement under suspicion of desertion, SCP-XXXX's anomalous nature was revealed during an interview.

Addendum XXXX.1Forward: The following is a list of individuals known to have been killed by SCP-XXXX.

Name

Time of Death

Method of Death

History

Staff Sargent Geoffrey Patel

22:46, 14/12/1942

Killed by SCP-XXXX instance via long-range gunshot wound to the head from a M1891 Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle

Sgt. Patel fought for the British in World War II. Despite being repeatedly accused of looting civilian homes in Libya, no disciplinary measures were taken against him.

Private Second Class Marcus Jeffords

11:18, 29/04/1943

Killed by SCP-XXXX instance via anti-personnel mine while on patrol in Southern Italy.

Pvt. Jeffords was an American soldier previously accused, though not charged, of first degree murder in his home town of Milwaukee, WI.

Hans Kristoff

19:37, 30/05/1943

Killed by SCP-XXXX instance via gunshot wound to the back of the head delivered at short range by a Luger P08 handgun. Shot at point blank, downward trajectory, likely in an execution position.

Kristoff was a German immigrant living on a farm in eastern France under the alias of Wilhelm Streisser. Previously a German soldier, he was sought after in his home country for desertion.

Soldat Heinrich Waller

Time Unknown, 1940

Killed by SCP-XXXX via drowning. Waller's skeletal remains were found by a fishing vessel in the English Channel. He had been dropped into the ocean with a concrete block secured to his leg via chain.

Waller had been conscripted into the German army in April of 1940 and sent to northern France to participate in The Battle of Dunkirk. Following his unit's retreat from the battle, he was reported MIA. Waller had executed multiple prisoners of war during his stay at Dunkirk.

2. [D-39893 was found deceased due to blunt force trauma to the head following the riot. While initially suspected to be a result of suppression efforts by on-site security personnel, further investigation determined SCP-XXXX had beaten and killed him in hand-to-hand combat.]